Gerda Rottschalk
Gerda Elisabeth Berta Rottschalk , née Gerda Berndt , (born June 26, 1920 in Berlin ; † August 8, 2001 in Berlin) was a German journalist and writer .
Life
Gerda Rottschalk was the daughter of a glazier and a seamstress. She graduated from business school and worked in a bank from 1936 to 1945. After the end of the Second World War , she took over the post of new teacher and taught lower school students from 1946 to 1955 . From 1961 she worked as a freelance journalist and non-fiction author. She was best known for her popular science children's stories on the topics of the early days of humans , Indians and antiquity , each of which comprises four volumes and was very popular in the GDR .
Gerda Rottschalk had a son. She is buried in the Resurrection Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .
Works
Almost all of her books have been published by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin .
- People's early days
- The fire animal . 1970
- The wild horse hunters . 1970
- The children of Sumut . 1971
- The temple scribe . 1971
- About the fire animal and the wild horse hunters . 1980 (anthology with all four stories)
- The test of courage . 1974
- The tank commander . 1974
- Indians
- The first Indians . 1977
- The snake dancers . 1978
- The great sun . 1980
- Fight at the Wounded Knee . 1981
- Snake dancers and Large sun . 1988 (anthology with all four stories)
- Antiquity
- A garden for Amytis . 1982
- Kleon and Sosias . 1986
- The procurator's son . 1986
- Master of the colored stones . 1989
- published after 1989
- Phew, Peter . (Gerda Rottschalk / Rudolf Schultz-Debowski), 2010, Leiv Leipziger Children's Book, ISBN 3-89603-361-1
literature
- Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer: Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990. Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-02177-7 , Sp. 1239.
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SURNAME | Rottschalk, Gerda |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rottschalk, Gerda Elisabeth Berta (full name); Elisabeth, Gerda (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2001 |
Place of death | Berlin |